Investigating a burial site at the ancient village of Tombos, archaeologists have re-written their own rule book when it ...

Africa’s heavyweight football clubs will slug it out in the CAF Champions League this midweek, as the quarterfinals get ...

The arrest of Vice President Riek Machar could trigger a new wave of fighting in Africa's youngest nation ... for peace in the fragile country. In South Sudan, the world's youngest country ...

US urges South Sudan to release Vice President Machar UN warns of potential resurgence of ethnic conflict Peace deal between Kiir and Machar at risk of collapse African Union, regional bloc ...

The Chairperson of the African Union Commission, H.E. Mahmoud Ali Youssouf, expresses deep concern over reports regarding the detention of the First Vice President of the Republic of South Sudan ...

As you rise to positions of leadership, you are tested in a most demanding environment, as people are only there because they ...

South Sudan's opposition says several of its key ... Campaigners say the change would have a major impact on maternal mortality. And the African film industry is expected to generate around ...

She worked for over a decade at the Tombos excavation site in South Sudan where archaeologists discovered at least five mud-brick pyramids containing pottery along with the aforementioned human ...

A 28-year-old mother of four who was gang-raped by armed men while collecting firewood, enters a makeshift house in Juba displacement camp, South Sudan ... For more on Africa and development ...

Riek Machar, South Sudan's First Vice President and President Salva Kiir's enduring rival, was arrested on Wednesday on "unclear charges", marking a dramatic escalation to a weeks-long conflict ...

South Sudan is teetering on the edge of renewed civil war, the top U.N. official in the world’s youngest nation warned on Monday, lamenting the government’s sudden ...

By Abdi Latif Dahir South Sudan’s vice president ... came days after he wrote a strongly worded letter to the U.N. and African Union expressing concern over the deployment of Ugandan troops ...